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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 24, 2012Washington County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2012, 1:45 PM MDT for Washington County, Utah. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2012, 1:45 PM MDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2012, 2:03 PM MDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Washington County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2012-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2012-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

593 
WUUS55 KSLC 241945
SVRSLC
UTC053-242030-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0012.120724T1945Z-120724T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
145 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 230 PM MDT

* AT 140 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HURRICANE...OR NEAR ST GEORGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  HURRICANE

THIS STORM PRODUCED A WIND GUST OF 62 MPH AT 130 PM AS IT CROSSED 
THE UTAH ARIZONA BORDER. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH
AND/OR LARGE HAIL AT LEAST ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

&&

LAT...LON 3727 11332 3700 11316 3700 11356 3706 11359
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 221DEG 18KT 3705 11351

$$

MPS
1 follow-up statement
714 
WWUS55 KSLC 242003
SVSSLC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
203 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2012

UTC053-242014-
/O.CAN.KSLC.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120724T2030Z/
WASHINGTON UT-
203 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE. THEREFORE THE WARNING
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3727 11332 3700 11316 3700 11356 3706 11359
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 221DEG 18KT 3713 11343

$$

MPS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 8:58 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWashington6 hr
Jul 24, 12:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield3 hr
Jul 24, 1:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWayne4 hr
Jul 24, 1:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWashington41 min
Jul 24, 2:44 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWashington6 hr
Jul 24, 3:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCIron42 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.